[The Great RJ]

Part of the problem is with US education. We simply aren't graduating enough engineers. We have dumbed down math to ridiculous levels-- I know I teach college algebra and incoming students are virtually ignorant of simple math skills--thanks to the new math. Colleges and Universities aren't doing their part either. They are putting money into developing Peace Studies, and other pseudo-studies departments at the expense of hard science and engineering. I'm certain the number of lawyers graduating from US Universities far exceeds the number of engineers.

Asian students are well trained in the basics and hard science and particularly engineering are fortes of many Asian Universities.

[oceanview]

that is a myth. americans aren't going into engineering now because they know there are no jobs to get when they graduate - or the wages are depressed because they are competing against foreign competition. there are no real estate brokers in the US competing against Indian and Chinese real estate agents.

sure, alot of US high school kids are bad at math and science. so what, only a fraction of them would need to take up engineering, not everybody goes into engineering, just as not everyone wants to be a dentist.

the students are going to take up studies where they believe they can get jobs. engineering used to be an inherited profession - the engineers of tommorrow are the childeren of today's engineers. but today's engineers know the score, and they won't send their kids to college for it, so engineering is dead in the US, this current generational gap will break it.

Get ready for a tidal wave of lawyers 3-6 years from now. you think the legal system is bad now, wait until the system has to generate enough revenue to support twice as many lawyers. things that we laugh about now, like suits against the fast food companies, will be a reality in a few years. same thing with public school teachers. think costs are too high now, and class sizes are too small? in a few years, you'll see 15 kids per class to employ all these new teachers being trained.

by doing nothing about offshoring, the republicans are killing off their own demographics by forcing more people into law and teaching, those are Dem voting blocs.

[traumer]

"Part of the problem is with US education. We simply aren't graduating enough engineers "

I know many very capable US engineers that already GRADUATED and cannot find jobs in their field (EE)...

[lelio]

Part of the problem is with US education. We simply aren't graduating enough engineers.

Why enter a field that's going to be offshored?